Point And Click And Click: AVGM

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For their contribution to the first Global Game Jam, in which thousands of people made games in 48 hours this weekend, Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel paired up once more to create AVGM. It’s possibly important to note the game carries the following warnings: “Excessive Nudity, Excessive Violence, Explicit Audio, Mild Text, Explicit Adult Themes”. Although only the most puritanical of people would take a great deal of offence. Screenshot espousing this content, and more details, below.

It’s a simple Flash game in which you flick a light switch on and off in order to cause objects to appear in a room. These objects can be moved around and arranged, as you progress. The name of the game is not revealed until you have completed it.

McMillen assures that, “AVGM is an experimental art game and winner of 2010’s IGF award for innovation.” He’s also added that since the original release of the game,

“The game now has 10 different endings that each make a piece of a puzzle. put the puzzle together and e-mail me with the info (souldescen@aol.com) for a prize!”

Here’s a quick tip for that: try to arrange the skeleton correctly for the seventh ending – that’s possibly the funniest. Good luck finding them all.

I tried this earlier. Uh. I had about 2000 clicks and then stuff started to turn coloured. Is it somehow depending on what you do with the stuff when new stuff comes? I switched the light on and off for ages to get new stuff to appear, until I got worried about my left mouse button and stopped.

It’s like that game the “cool” kids at school used to play by asking other kids if they were a virgin or not. Of course, not knowing what a virgin was when you were 8, you could only guess the correct answer. If you answered in the affirmative or the negative you were equally greeted with guffaws and “Can you BELIEVE this guy!? Not/Is a virgin!!! What a loser.”

Yeah it reminds me of that, with the shifting of the goals and all… or perhaps the not having any goals either way…

Except that once I read the walk through for this it was kind of funny.

Do not play it. It is a worthless piece of crap. I gave up at 3500 with a sore arm and got the aforementioned auto clicker. I seriously doubt John Walkers ability to recognize a video game as distinct to a chew toy a dog would use to make a noise.

At 1200 clicks the secret is revealed it’s a nothing piece of crap. Yes it’s a joke, I get it, but it’s just not funny. if your not going to play something yourself then never ask someone else to do it. Even if it is a joke.

Because we had faith in rps that they would not point us towards a shallow prank?

I mean if it was April first then Fine, all bets are off… but this was just after the global games jam. Your expecting games to be a bit broken and a bit laborious; but not for the first game recommended to be a joyless prank.

yeah, i also took the game being worthy of an article on rps as a recommendation. couldn’t see any other reason for this, though, beyond having mcmillen as its creator.

heh, on the other hand, i don’t really care since i didn’t spend THAT much time with it to get to be pissed off at myself for clicking stupidly for an hour. i get some sort of ego-boost, though, from the fact that there are prolly others who actually clicked 10k times, while i stopped at just 1k, so it’s not all bad.

I think, not having played it as I have exactly the right amount of cynicism, assume it’s not the kind of joke that’s funny when you play it, but the kind that’s funny when you trick some other poor shmuck into playing.